aah, the reflection of perfection!

beny | hy/hym/they/them alternating | gendervoid | 26 | alter

[voidvoice]

is a pinned post something people do? i'll make a better one later, but in the meantime:

artist & writer (sfw/nsfw), mid-20s, queer, autistic, and i like to think i'm a pretty cool guy.

liminal spaces and niche aesthetics are my jam. if you want, Please talk to me about hlvrai.

[deepinourengines]

oh sure blame the guy whose fault it is

[old-tvs-on-the-ground]

[ID: tv put out with the trash, laying under the recycling bins.]

[rockdistributor100]

I Was So Good And Polite They Are Putting Me In The Touch Tank At Aquarium Tomorrow.

[contac]

[hazzahoun]

hey so what's up with the shadow skeletons. not to mention THE SKULLS THAT FALL OUT OF PEOPLES HEADS ARE WATCHING THEM.

[blummenz]

xar with his loud ass feet

[sourcengine-moved]

[yogurukun]

Horrible

[wimble-thimble]

he tryna make that thing look vicious 😭 😭 

[swampfiendart]

[smallconsciousness]

Incredible defence mechanism

[justarandomrat]

I made three friends today!

[edansaca]

What if Benr(e)y was a bird thing instead, I like birds

[naaaicy]

[thesilveregg]

Is this anything

[andmaybegayer]

> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

[andmaybegayer]

> #wait are labubu's blind bags?!

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

There's also a shake feature that is designed to encourage you to buy more than one by narrowing down the possibility space on a crate of options so that if you're hunting a specific model you can verify that it's guaranteed to be in one of these three IF you buy all three right now!!!!!

[girlishgamine]

You can read more about what dark patterns are and how to spot them here.

Deceptive Patterns (aka Dark Patterns) - spreading awareness since 2010

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things tha

[ralfmaximus]

That is a fucking awesome site everyone should visit. Don't skip the Hall of Shame.

[dailymanners]

I just thought of this post, which was actually how I learned what Dark Patterns are, because I tried to cancel my Adobe Acrobat subscription, and it took much longer than I anticipated because several times throughout the process it felt like it was intentionally trying to trick me into thinking I'd cancelled my subscription when I actually hadn't yet.

Please read up on Dark Patterns and learn how to recognize them.